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Christian Heldt is a German career diplomat who has served as deputy head of mission of the German Embassy to the Holy See in Rome since 2013. From 2010 to 2013, he headed the France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxemburg divisions in the Directorate General for Europe in the Auswärtiges Amt. Heldt served in the German Defense Ministry as senior political adviser to the chief of staff responsible for German military missions abroad (Afghanistan, Atalanta/Somalia, Balkans) from 2008 to 2010. Prior to these roles, he served in the French Quai d’Orsay as counselor and deputy secretary general for Franco-German relations, and he led the German negotiations to the Mediterranean Union as acting head of the Barcelona Process division in the Auswärtiges Amt. Heldt received M.A. degrees from the universities of Bonn and Paris-Sorbonne, where he studied contemporary history, international public law, and political sciences.